Monday, March 30, 2009

In Brief

Been looking through old journals, since I'm almost at the end of my current one. Found a couple of poems that I think I can revisit and rework with the (sometimes years') distance. In the meantime, thought-starters for anyone visiting:

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I've got the White House as #3 on my speed dial / right after God / and Al Pacino

My girl's inThe next roomI must be some kind of toolI guess I never expected gooooooooooooon orrhea and syphilis and HIVI'm a fuckin' idiot with fifteen STDsAnd my balls just ain't feelin' too wellThanks to the lips of an angel

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We have met the Underworld, and it is Us.

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lemurs & meth

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list of things I think I hear Ilya Kaminsky say during a reading at AWP:

"stature of a persian crane""refusing to better, they are dead""they make love - in the moving they are unable to hear""a straight judge, a soprano, a Venetian""there are cares before wine""closed doors and no flashlights""colonialism moves the mouth""yes, the police are fatigated""in back came a marble eviction"

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[two pages later in this journal I note my first meeting with Karin Gottshall - heard a poem of hers at one of the evening shindigs and absolutely had to write a poem in response]